Monday, October 14, 2013

Thousands Arrested In Moscow After Race Riots Over ‘Migrant’ Murder



Moscow Police Detain Hundreds After Worst Rioting in 3 Years -- Bloomberg

Moscow police detained hundreds of people after the murder of a Russian man provoked the worst nationalist violence in almost three years in the capital.

The riot, which state news service RIA Novosti said injured six policemen, began yesterday in the Biryulyovo residential district after a 25-year-old local inhabitant was allegedly stabbed to death Oct. 10 by a person born in Central Asia or Russia’s Caucasus region. About 1,200 people were rounded up today during a police raid on a vegetable storage facility that was ransacked along with a shopping center, RIA reported.

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More News On Yesterday's Moscow Race Riot

Rioting erupts in Moscow after killing blamed on migrant -- Reuters
Protests erupt after stabbing death in Russia -- CNN
Moscow riots after 'murder by migrant' -- BBC
Hundreds Arrested After Violent Race Riots Break Out in Moscow -- The Atlantic
Police presence stepped up in Moscow after stabbing sparks anti-migrant riots -- Euronews
Moscow tries to calm tensions after anti-migrant riot -- AFP
Russian police detain 1200 in anti-migrant raid -- Sydney Morning Herald
1,200 migrants detained, warehouse raid following violent Moscow riot -- RT
1,200 Detained at Vegetable Warehouse Targeted in Anti-Migrant Riots -- RIA Novosti

My Comment: Russia is experiencing the same flood of economic refugees that Western Europe is facing .... resentments have been building up for a very long time, and it does not take much for these animosities to explode.

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